Texas solution or nuclear nightmare? : as a company in the Lone Star State moves to profit from America's dilemma with spent nuclear fuel, others fear the worst [PDF]
, 2015 textThe United States government has sought a permanent disposal site for spent nuclear fuel since 1982. To date, no location for disposing of spent fuel exists.
Baucum, Joseph Albert
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The Depositional Record, EarlyView.Our research uses a multidisciplinary approach, including organic and inorganic geochemistry, biostratigraphy, carbon isotope geochemistry and organic petrography to reconstruct depositional conditions and organic matter accumulation during the Pliensbachian and Toarcian.
Premila Wijesinghe +7 more
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, 2018 This review paper describes the destructive and non-destructive measurements implemented or under development at CEA, in view to perform the most complete radioactive waste characterization.
B. Pérot +16 more
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Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.A series of water infiltration tests and gas permeability tests were conducted on granite and granite–bentonite samples. According to the results, the interfaces between granite and bentonite and the damaged granite were considered to be the preferentcial pathway for gas migration.
Jiangfeng Liu +5 more
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Thermal Conductivity of Korean Compacted Bentonite Buffer Materials for a Nuclear Waste Repository
Energies, 2018 Engineered barrier system (EBS) has been proposed for the disposal of high-level waste (HLW). An EBS is composed of a disposal canister with spent fuel, a buffer material, backfill material, and a near field rock mass.
Seok Yoon +3 more
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Elevated temperature effects on swelling pressure of compacted bentonite
Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.We present a set of new experimental investigations on the effects of elevated temperature on the swelling pressure development of compacted bentonite. This research was motivated by an emerging interest in using bentonite as a plug material in oil and gas well abandonment.
Linhua He +4 more
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Deliverable D8b: Development of the physical/statistical downscaling methodology and application to climate model CLIMBER for BIOCLIM Workpackage 3. Work Package 3, Simulation of the future evolution of the biosphere system using the hierarchical strategy. Modelling Sequential Biosphere Systems under Climate Change for Radioactive Waste Disposal (BIOCLIM) [PDF]
, 2003 The overall aim of BIOCLIM is to assess the possible long term impacts due to climate change on the safety of radioactive waste repositories in deep formations.
Agüero Prieto, Almudena +17 more
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Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.Triaxial compression tests under unloading confining pressure conditions were conducted to systematically analyze the permeability behavior of granite retrieved from the different classification surrounding rocks. Abstract The rock mass within mountain tunnels undergoes complex changes in permeability, strength, and deformation during tunneling ...
Xiaoyan Zhang +4 more
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Nuclear Waste Disposal in France : the Contribution of Economic Analysis. [PDF]
This article addresses the following question: How to deal with uncertainty, emergence of new information and irreversibility in the decision process of the long-term disposal of radioactive waste?
Jean-Alain Héraud, Oana Ionescu
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Hydraulic Conductivity of Geosynthetic Clay Liners to Low-Level Radioactive Waste Leachate
, 2016 Hydraulic conductivity was evaluated for eight commercially available geosynthetic clay liners (GCLs) permeated with leachate characteristic of low-level radioactive waste (LLW) disposal facilities operated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Kuo Tian, C. Benson, W. Likos
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